Former Miss USA left in tears at TSA checkpoint

An invasive TSA pat-down at the Dallas airport left former Miss U.S.A Susie Castillo in tears. She said the search left her feeling violated, and she likened it to molestation.

Castillo made an emotional video shortly after the incident on April 21.

“I’m sure this woman was just doing her job. But she, I mean she actually, felt, touched my vagina,” she said. “And so I think that’s why I’m crying; that’s what I’m so emotional, because I’m already so upset that they’re making me go – making me do this. Making me choose to either get molested, because that’s what I feel like and, or, or, go through this machine that’s completely unhealthy and dangerous. I don’t want to go through it, and here I am crying.”

Ironically, a TSA nullification bill was filed in the Texas legislature last month, a bill that would ban the full body scanners and make it a crime to preform invasive searches. The legislation would make it a criminal offense to:

as part of a search performed to grant access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation, intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: (A) searches another person without probable cause to believe the person committed an offense; and (B) touches the anus, sexual organ, or breasts of the other person, including touching through clothing, or touches the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.

But Texas legislators seem more interested in playing politics, merely bouncing the proposed law around committee.

It’s time to take action.

The Fourth Amendment says:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.

No exceptions. No excuses. No extenuating circumstances.

SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED.

Let’s call this what it was.

A sexual assault.

The fact that the perpetrator wore a badge and acted at the behest of the federal government does not make it OK. In fact, it makes it that much more egregious.

And the state of Texas stood idly by, playing politics because some legislators didn’t like parliamentary maneuvering by the bill’s author, Rep. David Simpson. So they yanked support – took their ball and went home.

In the meantime, Miss U.S.A. had her vagina touched by a stranger in the Dallas airport.

Appalling.

It’s time to take action.

Castillo pleads with her viewers to step up.

“I’m hoping that other people who feel violated as an American will make these complaints and maybe they’ll change something.”

States have the power to challenge this federal overreach. States have the duty to interpose on behalf of their citizens. It’s time for the states to step up.

Texas needs to pass this legislation. Legislators in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Hawaii have proposed similar legislation. They need to pass it too. And every other state in the union needs to follow suit.

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” – Frederick Douglass.

Yeah, I would delete such trash, but I think it is a good example of what kind of idiocy we who love liberty are up against. If average people think such actions by the TSA are just a joke, we have a LOT of work to do….

You have missed the point entirely but then, that is no surprise. If you are older than 12, that would surprise me, because your remark is immature and piggish. Mature adults don't speak in that manner.

It actually surprises me that you would even be interested in hearing about her rights being violated as she was unjustly groped just because she wanted to fly. You think it is a joke. Give your mom/grandmother/wife/sister/aunt/niece my condolences … you are a sorry excuse of a male.

This comment is akin to blaming a rape victim for being raped. Our stupid unconstitutional government employees are raping the American citizens and WE are being blamed!! Go figure. If we don't start standing up for our 4th Amendment rights, then woe be unto us. Next time you have to go through the line and make the decision whether to be bombarded with cancer-causing radiation or be sexually assaulted by some minimum-wage goon who wouldn't know a bomb if it exploded in his or her face, stand on your 4th Amendment rights and see what happens.

TSA agents commit sexual assault under color of authority. It is organization policy, and TSA agents are following orders.

Therefore, the TSA is a criminal organization. Furthermore, individual agents are not immune from prosecution; it was established at Nuremburg that "I was just following orders" is not an adequate defense.

"The fact that the perpetrator wore a badge and acted at the behest of the federal government does not make it OK."

No, but the fact that she VOLUNTEERED for that search DOES make it ok. The TSA is not taking away anyone's rights. They are asking people to give up those rights, and people are allowing them to do so.

The 4th Amendment doesn't say the government can't perform ANY search. If the police ask to search, and you agree, no 4th Amendment violation. If the TSA asks to pat you down, and you agree, no 4th Amendment violation.

that is BS, there isn't a fine, simply leave and go take a bus or a train! Furthermore, you should all be ashamed of yourselves…….DOES ANYONE REMEMBER 911????? Or does that not bother you, if you didn't personally know someone involved! Take away TSA, are you going to feel comfortable getting on a plane? Seriously, this pageant winner is fishing for fame! It is more important for her to get the spotlight and hope for a tv deal than the rest of the American citizens flying from one destination to another SAFELY! The pat downs are completely professional! Get real people!

HOW DO YOU KNOW SHE IS FISHING FOR FAME?!!! And let me remind you…None of us have forgotten 911! There is something called professionalism and decency and the TSA needs to be called to a higher accountability if that they are being hired to keep our skies safer! There are people taking advantage of others in all careers!

Your an idiot. The kind of idiot the government LOVES. Your constitutional rights are being taken away slowly but surely, all in the name of safety. Nobody is guaranteed a life of complete safety. The cry of the sheep is – remember 911, or – if we can save just one (insert whoever/whatever you want here), and the ever popular…I have nothing to hide. Benjamin Franklin said – Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither. The TSA should be disbanded entirely. The original intent was to centralize intellegence information. This still has not been done, last I heard there was 24 agencies collecting intellegence and still no central repository because they all want to have their little kingdoms. Terrorism and the drug war have been used to tear the bill of rights to shreds. Its time we wake up and put America back together.

I remember 9/11 but I didnt do it. This is a Hobson's Choice meant to paint us all into a situation in which we must either choose to irradiate ourselves, be molested, or use a mode of transportation that may not be available to all people.

The TSA has got to go. A person is more likely to get shot and killed at the local 7-11, than in a hijacking of a plane. The government is stealing our rights one by one, and as a nation, apparrently we don't care. It is appalling. So are the sexist jokes that go along with it. Oh, and as a budgetary cut… I think it is one thing we can all live without. Cut the budget… Fire the TSA.

REFUSE TO FLY. I won't fly until this this outrage is nullified and the tsa disbanded.
In addition, are you aware the tsa agents and supervisors do NOT swear an Oath to uphold and defend the Constitution?

It's just a shame.This could all be fixed in a day if Americans could possibly pull their collective heads out their asses. One day of empty airports would bring it all down.I doubt it will be our current generation of teens, but perhaps the next will understand who actually weilds power in this nation & be wise enough to use it.

As a non-American, I have travelled into the US many, many times a year for both business (I owned two parts manufacturing plants employing an average of 262 people there) and pleasure …. because of how you now treat people, I will not travel into the US for any reason what-so-ever. I have moved my plants out of the US because a choice between radiation or molestation or leaving was pretty easy … I left.

Not without sorrow, I had some really loyal, honest, decent and hard working people associated with me – people whom I respected as friends (some of whom I had offered to assist in leaving the US) but enough is enough and I left you good people of the United States to have the remaining choices I was given without the benefit of the decent jobs I had created for some of you.

Now, I just feel sorry for you and your children. You have truly lost or given up your freedom and you really don't yet know it.

PLEASE let our elected reps know why you did this. You were absolutely right in doing so, and it's a sad day in America that nazi tactics are being used on Americans, and some are even okay about it. I know there were many Germans who felt that Hitlers tactics were okay too.

A) Americans are not criminals and we are not terrorists. Absolutely and utterly ridiculous notion! Laugh….

B) This has nothing to do with terrorism, and has everything to do with shutting down the borders under the color of law, and restricting American travel.

C) It's time we Americans got up and Just Say No. Write letters to the editors. Post to the internet! Class action lawsuits, not solo! There's a strength in numbers! We PAY our politicians! Why these ATTACKS on AMERICANS?

D) Our own Federal agents, and their employees, may now be publicly regarded and written up as felons. Think about it.

They should be jailed.

E) Americans and others have every right to free travel. Without being virtually gunpointed into being the victim of a crime.

Friends, I urge you all to write to your local District Attornies and ask them to stand up, make public statements, and sue where necessary. Ask them to post their statements to the Internet, with permission to reprint and seed their statements all over the web! Ask for media interviews with District Attornies and other attornies who stand against these criminal invasions of the American tax PAYers.

If anybody thinks that the solution to this mess is to "git thems ragheded muzlims" then you clearly have no capacity for rational thinking. What idiot would believe that if the gov't starts in on one groups rights that they won't find excuses to weasel in on everybody's rights? What makes you immune from future profiling… age? race? religion? any of those could be used against you and for whatever whims those in power decide. Get a clue, wake up, and think about the real enemy here: the molesting-happy powers that be.

I am willing to bet that now that she has filed a complaint, she will be put on a "no-fly" list – making future travel a nightmare. There are nearly a million names (or more) on that list already, including underage children – rendering it useless.

Waving the Islamist boogey man at us in order to strip away our constitutional rights.

We live in Bizarro World or Htrae (Earth spelled backwards). For those who do not remember Superman, it was earth turned backwards. Our America is turned backwards. Our constitutional rights are violated left and right. STAND UP AMERICA.

Intimidation is the word. The gov't will try anything they can get away with in order to force us into submission over time. The TSA is a bully organization that needs to be disbanded and Napalitano needs to be deported to Mexico after a thouough examination for weapons.
I am an 80 year old man and will not fly anymore based on principle. These gangsters can take their gloves and shove them up their own.

If you are curious as to why so many Americans put up with this crap, go to this link and read ," How progressive education and bad Philosophy corrupted the people & undermined the constitution of the United States." http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/
We would not be in this state of affairs if our people had been trained HOW TO THINK!
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I love this! I'm sorry that Miss USA was upset, but her comments after she collects herself are as good as anything I've heard at a libertarian rally! Sign her up! I wonder if there is a way for 10th Amendment Center to work with her?

Really? My 72 yr old aunt went throught the same crap because she had OBVIOUS steel knee braces on her legs and a pace maker. They swabbed down the braces and ran it through their detector to make sure it wasn't a bomb disguised as a knee brace. They then went up under her blouse to "feel" her chest for the pacemaker. Afterwards they did the same thing as far as a full body search. I know all this happened because they didn't take her behind a screen, they did it right there in front of everyone at LAX. I was enbarrassed for her. The idiot they have in charge of the TSA was a pencil pusher for the FBI. He's probably never done a field search in his life. This action against American citizens is appalling. They could accomplish the same thing with a bomb dog that everyone walked by and by PROFILING. How many terrorist acts at airports occur in Israel, NONE.

ya'll gotta understand something- this is the socialist Obama administration so (1) neither he nor anyone else (TSA) gives a damn whether you like it, and (2) neither Obama nor his socialist conspirators have to go through patdowns or bodyscans so the rest of you peasants can kiss his royal ass.

It's amazing that something that's deemed a crime is advocated, encouraged committed and is a law. She has an excellent point about explosives up the rectum and if that will be the next thing they'll make mandatory to check. There's got to be a better way such as profiling. Israel does it and hasn't had an incident. Matter of fact they have not had any problems. Profiling is better than lawfull groping.

In Texas, it is politics as usual, and that, is totally unacceptable. Poeple ask my why I don't fly anymore….(This is not an insult to Miss USA so pleas edon't take it as one.)…but we can't smoke indoors and after someone gets that personal with me we need to have a smoke and get to know each other. Otherwise it feels like they should leave money on my nightstand.

Because local police do not work for local people really, although some other "local people" are on the almost inevitably out of town controlling forces pay off and cultivate list : and are thereby also exalted to apparently I do not care or are mind controlled, not human anyway , just too unaware to comprehend or an admixture of any of that. By local i would mean anyone or any action pertaining to local that violates what the people have deemed inviolate, in my ship anyway. Excuse the french, you fuckin are in nazi germany, in a kind of warped way, but then you are also kind of heading back to a dickensian time though the slow early death of soot and confined, depraved, deprived, and deflowered of youth in its infancy mimic lacks the melodrama of ourselves extinction. And by that i mean us over here in the land of maniacal aus too though I wonder when the nuclear tide really invades our atmosphere and etc. A year came to me in a flash as I pondered on this a month or so ago. One year ago in a dream I was reassured not to get too worried about what is going on now, pertaining to myself as there was a lot of changing in the world to go on over the next couple of years, somehow these two things were linked. There are always disasters but then there is such a stench of superdisaster about this whole human encouraged spate of primarily weather and geologically involved incidents. Do I dare say human induced, yes I do, as far as I am concerned if you dont know this word up

Waaaa nothing. Whether or not someone has touched her vagina is not the point. This was not someone she knew and it was unacceptable to be touched in that mannor. The TSA agent basically assaulted her and used a position of authority to do it legally. I am curious to know if these TSA agents have had in depth backround checks into their criminal histories to check for instances of assault. Her argument was valid and very clear and she should not be judged for speaking her mind because she is a celebrity. Yes she could take a bus but only to certain places and time is often a factor so flying for many is the best option but that does not mean we should be assaulted for choosing pat downs over radiation. Most of us don't fly often enough for this to worry us but celebrities do. I have small children and I will not let them go through tose machine but am uncomfortable with a stranger touching them. How do I choose. We tell our kids it wrong for people to touch them then we travel and say its okay. Mine are too young to understand the differance and I believe opens the door to a bad situation.

Some of the comments on this blog are down right disgusting…come on and grow up. Everyone has the right not to have their body violated regardless of the reason. I don't want my granddaughters being felt in personal places and I'm sure if some of you had daughters, you certainly wouldn't be making such callous remarks. The TSA has no right to do this and as citizens of the US we have the right to challenge this procedure…and the option to take a bus is an ignorant remark…

Sue them. There needs to be a Class Action suit against any and all, including obama. I wonder just why the ACLU is keeping quiet in these cases. Are they going through these lines? Oh, they are taking the bus? When is the first person with a deformed child due to this radiation going to sue?

It has to be madness for a parent to watch their child molested at the hands of obama.

It's getting worse. Take a trip to your local BMV and see what you have to do to get a new license. It is better to be an illegal these days than illegal.

And for companies that prefer to leave here rather than have their employees molested or radiated, I'm sorry, but I applaud them for taking the stand we are not.

"Sexual assault takes many forms including attacks such as rape or attempted rape, as well as any unwanted sexual contact or threats. Usually a sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person's body in a sexual way, even through clothes."

REALLY Jenn? If you FEEL like you were sexually assaulted, you WERE sexually assaulted. Or do you think we should leave it to the one touching you to decide whether or not fondling your vagina is molestation? That's like letting the Rapist define 'consent' instead of the victim!

It is a violation of her body sexually…it is part of a broad plan to desensitize and demoralize and people such as yourself are the brainwashed and ignorant – public school and the media have done a good job on you. If you wanted to, you could do some exploratory study (no pun intended) on the issue featured here, which is violation of the law…actual violation of a person (property, body, possession, etc).

I am glad to get pat down if it means that everyone else will too.
I also let my doctor "violate" me for the same reason–to protect my health.
As an American, I enjoy but do not exercise my right not to go to a doctor and not to fly.
It is silly for me to insist that I have the "right" to get on a commercial flight without proving I am a safe passenger.

You are very very foolish to think this is anything but a means of control, and I am very, very sorry to have you so willingly give up your rights for safety. Next you'll tell us you'd gladly let people search your home to make sure you aren't making bombs. Take a look at history and see where this is leading…

The ignorance and misogyny in terry’s comment is astounding. Anyone who condones touching a woman’s vulva against her will is no better than a common rapist. Let’s see how much you like the blue glove squad when they’re knuckle deep in your rectum. Hey, anything for security, right?

I want to add to my earlier replies by saying that she made a very significant observation regarding drug smugglers when she points out that terrorists can and possibly will utilize the same methods. Scanners are our best defense against this but the government needs to step up and make these machines safer because otherwise the next thing the TSA will want us to do when we opt for searches is crouch and cough hard while they have their hands between our legs.

Definition of Sexual Abuse according to The Nation center For Victims of Crime.

Sexual assault takes many forms including attacks such as rape or attempted rape, as well as any unwanted sexual contact or threats. Usually a sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person's body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person's consent. Some types of sexual acts which fall under the category of sexual assault include forced sexual intercourse (rape), sodomy (oral or anal sexual acts), child molestation, incest, fondling and attempted rape. Sexual assault in any form is often a devastating crime. Assailants can be strangers, acquaintances, friends, or family members. Assailants commit sexual assault by way of violence, threats, coercion, manipulation, pressure or tricks. Whatever the circumstances, no one asks or deserves to be sexually assaulted.

there is a criminal syndicate so organized on racial and religious lines they are able to blow up American buildings and blame it on others; and muddy the water of our national credit and currency so it is not understood by all, as it should be. Why has the 10th amendment center not latched on to 9-11 truth? or Public Banking Institute?